2020: Started in all seven games for the Privateers and finished the year 6-22 at the plate with three RBIs and five runs scored. His season was highlighted by a dominant performance in a win over Northland College where he went 2-5 with a home run, two runs scored, and an RBI..
2019: Started in 16 of 21 games played for the Privateers and finished with a .267 batting average, .350 slugging percentage, and .353 on-base percentage. In the field, he finished with 61 put-outs, and 17 assists for a .918 fielding percentage. In all three of the Privateers playoff games he recorded a hit. Additionally his season was highlighted by a 2-3 performance against Southern Vermont with an RBI and a run scored, as well as a 2-5 performance against Hood with two runs scored. He also went 8-9 on stolen base attempts for the year.
2018: Played in 35 of the team’s 36 games during his sophomore season with the Privateers…hit .295 on the season with 36 hits in 122 at bats…scored 21 runs and drove in 21 while also connecting on four doubles and one home run for a .352 slugging percentage…led the team with 14 stolen bases on the season in his team-leading 17 attempts…had three hits and drove in three runs in the team’s doubleheader with Southern Vermont (3/3)…had three RBIs in the team’s opening win over Lebanon Valley (3/8)…added one hit and a stolen base in the opener with Scranton (3/10)…added four hits and scored three runs while driving in a pair in the team’s doubleheader sweep over Yeshiva (3/16)…was 4-for-4 and stole two bases while scoring two runs in the second game of the team’s sweep over Purchase (3/24)…added five hits and drove in three while scoring two runs in the team’s league doubleheader with St. Joseph’s (LI) (3/25)…had base knocks in each game while also driving in three in the team’s sweep over Staten Island (4/6)…had two hits and swiped a bag in non-conference action with Manhattanville (4/10)…collected four hits and scored three runs while driving in two runs on the road against Mount St. Vincent (4/15)…had singles in both games of the final road doubleheader of the year at Mount St. Mary (4/22)…added one hit in the opener against Old Westbury (4/28).
Game-by-Game Statistics
2017: Appeared in 23 games for the Privateers during his rookie season and made 21 starts on the year…hit .280 on the season with 21 hits in 75 at bats including two doubles and two home runs…drove in 18 runs and scored 19 of his own…had a .413 slugging percentage and a .349 on-base percentage with seven walks and one hit by pitch…made his season debut and recorded his first career hit and drove in his first career RBI with a single in the team’s second game of the year against Southern Vermont (3/5)…was 1-for-1 in action against Monmouth (Ill.) (3/9)…scored a run in the second game against Mount St. Mary (3/25)…had a run-scoring single in non-conference action against New York University (3/29)…walked twice and scored a run in the opener against Merchant Marine (4/2)…was 3-for-4 with a double and drove in two runs while scoring a pair against non-conference Lehman (4/11)…had three hits with two home runs and drove in seven runs while scoring four in a non-league doubleheader against John Jay (4/15)…had a single and scored two runs against St. Joseph’s (Bklyn) (4/22)…added three hits including a double against Mount St. Vincent (4/23)…added two singles and drove in a pair in league play versus St. Joseph’s (Bklyn) (4/30)…walked three times and singled en route to scoring four runs in both ends of a doubleheader against Yeshiva (5/1)…had two hits in the team’s 15-inning win over Merchant Marine (5/6)…had one hit with a double and drove in three while scoring three runs in the team’s Skyline Conference Championship game victory over St. Joseph’s (LI) (5/7)…added a hit and stole a base in the championship-clinching matchup against Mount St. Mary (5/8)…started in both games of the team’s NCAA Division III Championship games against Shenandoah (5/18) and added a hit and an RBI in the season finale against Elizabethtown (5/19).
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High School: Graduated from Freeport High School in Freeport, N.Y. in 2016 … played baseball for the Red Devils from 2013-16 … helped guide the team to its first postseason appearance in over 12 seasons as a senior … served as a team captain his senior campaign … earned All-County honors as a senior and was selected as the team’s most valuable player … hit .431 as a senior with 18 RBIs while stealing 12 bases … also led the team in hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBIs and runs scored as a senior … was a team captain and also earned All-League accolades as a junior … ran several seasons of winter track while in high school … played club baseball for the Batting 1,000 Seminoles, the Long Island Whalers, and the Cutting Edge Baseball program … was also a member of the National Honor Society, the National Science Honor Society, and the National Society of High School Scholars while at Freeport.
Personal: Son of Jacinto Diaz and Debra Klasko … is majoring in Electrical Engineering as he earns his degree at Maritime.
